Alex Petroff’s Congo project gains momentum

BRUNSWICK


…After graduating from Hampshire College last year, Petroff returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo to start building a village, patterned after his 80-page senior project that proposed self-sustaining, oxen-powered agrarian villages as a mode of economic development.

…”It’s a model that we may all need to adopt as peak oil becomes more and more of a reality,” supporter Rosalie Paul of Georgetown said of Petroff’s plan for a sustainable project.

The Times Record News (Maine)